Sat Feb 27 2021 | Kenny DeJohn | College
PHOTO BY RICH BARNES
Syracuse has played two games this spring. Both have been against non-conference teams ranked in the top five of the Nike/US Lacrosse Division I Women’s Top 20.
Both have been blowouts in favor of the Orange.
In their first game in the renovated Carrier Dome, the No. 2 Orange dismantled No. 5 Stony Brook 16-6. Megan Carney scored five goals, and Sam Swart and Sierra Cockerille added four each.
Meg Carney goes for goals. @CuseWLAX dominates @StonyBrookWLAX 16-6 without Emily Hawryschuk. pic.twitter.com/r8C1IEnLdK
The story here, though, was that Tewaaraton favorite Emily Hawryschuk did not play. Seen on the sideline multiple times during the ACC Network broadcast using crutches to move around, Hawryschuk reportedly suffered a lower body injury at practice Friday evening. A source told US Lacrosse Magazine that the injury was to her ACL.
Assistant Coaches: Kim Hillier, Greg Miceli, Kasey Mitchell
Head coach Joe Spallina was trying to figure out ways to shut down USC star Kaeli Huff when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Stony Brook canceled the game hours later, and the season was over the next day. It was a tough blow for a Seawolves team that beat Syracuse in the Carrier Dome to open the season and thought it had a legitimate shot at its first-ever national championship.
Flash forward 11 months. Huff is now a Seawolf, and she’ll play alongside Tewaaraton hopeful Ally Kennedy, who accepted the fifth year of eligibility in a heartbeat. Add in classmate and All-American Taryn Ohlmiller and a 13-player freshman class that Spallina calls his best ever, and you get a Stony Brook team that doesn’t expect to pick up where it left off last year it wants more.